Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
BANGER · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.22/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 9,649
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9h
- To 100%
- 45.6h 5.1x the story
- Achievements
- 75
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 January 2022
- Sale every
- 52d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 162 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
71% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition ($36.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Supreme Commander 2 ($12.99, scores 75).
$34.98 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $19.99.
More about Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
This site sampled 677 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 870 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
9 hours to finish it, 46 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
Something that I always wanted to play. And I finally finished it. It was fun with legendary difficulty. But the worse part is there is no HALO WARS 2 on Steam!!! no good sale for halo wars 2 and probably I will wait for Steam release. This game is just simple good and short. 10/10
2 more reviews
Overall Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is a great and amazing game. The Pros - The story was great allowing for a fantastic experience. - Forge - Gameplay was enjoyable and at times challenging. The Cons - Co-op isn't very balanced. Both players having to share the same resource pool which wasn't fun on the more challenging missions. - The 100 Skirmish or Multiplayer matches for the 100% wasn't fun. - Arcadia City...
Amazing entry level RTS. The music, graphical design and writing are all great. I Couldn't recommend it more.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4200 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon R5 M240, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/459220/halo-wars-definitive-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.